Whether you draw traditionally or digitally, there comes a time when every artist decides to take their drawing to the next level and the first thing to be addressed can your your techniques for applying shading. There are a number of techniques and approaches that you can adopt to getting lead on the paper, the most common being hatching....

Creating art is and always has been about communication and hidden stories or meanings. Some of the more famous artists would spend more time ‘designing’ their paintings than they would spend actually painting them. In this post, I would like to recommend one of the infamous TED talks to you. If you are unfamiliar with TED talks, they are like mini lectures, from experts in their respective fields. Normally, 10-20 minutes they are thought provoking and always well presented....

Another Creature Design Speedpaint using Photoshop CS5. This time you can watch as I speed through a large nosed creature. I employ my usual painting style, starting with a very loose line drawing, then progressing onto black and white shading, finally, leading in to multiple colour layers....